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Your #1 was Once Upon a Time in America (#1).
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Dir. Sergio Leone · Robert De Niro · James Woods · Elizabeth McGovern · Joe Pesci
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
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Dir. Miloš Forman · F. Murray Abraham · Tom Hulce · Elizabeth Berridge · Simon Callow
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Salzburger composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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Dir. James Cameron · Arnold Schwarzenegger · Michael Biehn · Linda Hamilton · Paul Winfield
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?
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Dir. Wim Wenders · Harry Dean Stanton · Nastassja Kinski · Dean Stockwell · Hunter Carson
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
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Dir. Hayao Miyazaki · Sumi Shimamoto · Ichiro Nagai · Gorō Naya · Yoji Matsuda
After a global war, the seaside kingdom known as the Valley of the Wind remains one of the last strongholds on Earth untouched by a poisonous jungle and the powerful insects that guard it. Led by the courageous Princess Nausicaä, the people of the Valley engage in an epic struggle to restore the bond between humanity and Earth.
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Dir. Ivan Reitman · Bill Murray · Dan Aykroyd · Sigourney Weaver · Harold Ramis
After losing their university jobs, three parapsychologists start a ghost-catching business in New York City and uncover a supernatural threat that could destroy the world.
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Dir. Rob Reiner · Christopher Guest · Michael McKean · Harry Shearer · Rob Reiner
"This Is Spinal Tap" shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups and downs, gold albums, name changes and undersold concert dates, along with the full host of requisite groupies, promoters, hangers-on and historians, sessions, release events and those special behind-the-scenes moments that keep it all real.
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Dir. Steven Spielberg · Harrison Ford · Kate Capshaw · Ke Huy Quan · Amrish Puri
After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.
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Dir. Roland Joffé · Sam Waterston · Haing S. Ngor · John Malkovich · Julian Sands
New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American photojournalist Al Rockoff. When the U.S. Army pulls out amid escalating violence, Schanberg makes exit arrangements for Pran and his family. Pran, however, tells Schanberg he intends to stay in Cambodia to help cover the unfolding story — a decision he may regret as the Khmer Rouge rebels move in.
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Dir. Wes Craven · Heather Langenkamp · Johnny Depp · Robert Englund · Amanda Wyss
Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...
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Dir. Joel Coen · John Getz · Frances McDormand · Dan Hedaya · Samm-Art Williams
The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
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Dir. Martin Brest · Eddie Murphy · Judge Reinhold · John Ashton · Lisa Eilbacher
Fast-talking, quick-thinking Detroit street cop Axel Foley has bent more than a few rules and regs in his time, but when his best friend is murdered, he heads to sunny Beverly Hills to work the case like only he can.
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Dir. John G. Avildsen · Ralph Macchio · Pat Morita · Elisabeth Shue · William Zabka
New Jersey teen Daniel LaRusso moves to Los Angeles with his mother, and soon strikes up a relationship with Ali. He quickly finds himself the target of bullying by a group of thugs, led by Ali's ex-boyfriend Johnny, who study karate at the Cobra Kai dojo under ruthless sensei John Kreese. Fortunately, Daniel befriends Mr. Miyagi, an unassuming repairman who just happens to be a martial arts master himself. Miyagi takes Daniel under his wing, training him in a more compassionate form of karate for self-defense and, later, preparing him to compete against the brutal Cobra Kai.
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Dir. Joe Dante · Zach Galligan · Phoebe Cates · Hoyt Axton · Frances Lee McCain
After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous creatures on a small town.
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Dir. Wolfgang Petersen · Noah Hathaway · Barret Oliver · Tami Stronach · Alan Oppenheimer
While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Falkor, must save Fantasia from the destruction of The Nothing.
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Dir. Robert Benton · Sally Field · Lindsay Crouse · John Malkovich · Danny Glover
In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a farm to run, and very little money in the bank - not to mention a deadly tornado and the unwelcome presence of the Ku Klux Klan. Edna is aided by her beautician sister, Margaret; a blind boarder, Mr. Will; and a would-be thief, Moze, who decides to teach Edna how to plant and harvest cotton.
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Dir. Robert Zemeckis · Michael Douglas · Kathleen Turner · Danny DeVito · Zack Norman
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.
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Dir. David Lean · Judy Davis · Victor Banerjee · Peggy Ashcroft · James Fox
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
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Dir. Hugh Wilson · Steve Guttenberg · Kim Cattrall · G.W. Bailey · Bubba Smith
New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy, much to the chagrin of the instructors. Not everyone is there through choice, though. Social misfit Mahoney has been forced to sign up as the only alternative to a jail sentence and it doesn't take long before he falls foul of the boorish Lieutenant Harris. But before long, Mahoney realises that he is enjoying being a police cadet and decides he wants to stay... while Harris decides he wants Mahoney out!
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Dir. Norman Jewison · Howard Rollins · Adolph Caesar · Art Evans · Robert Townsend
In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. Military lawyer, Captain Davenport—also a black man—is sent from Washington to conduct an investigation. Facing an uncooperative chain of command and fearful black troops, Davenport must battle with deceit and prejudice in order to find out exactly who really did kill the Master Sergeant.
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Dir. Leonard Nimoy · William Shatner · DeForest Kelley · James Doohan · George Takei
A surprise visit from Spock's father provides a startling revelation: McCoy is harboring Spock's living essence.
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Dir. Herbert Ross · Kevin Bacon · Lori Singer · John Lithgow · Dianne Wiest
When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock after discovering he's living in a place where music and dancing are illegal.
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